Discovery and Characterization of Low-Molecular Weight Inhibitors of .

Plant pathogenic bacteria in the genus cause economically important diseases, including bacterial wilt of cucurbits caused by . Conventional bactericides are insufficient to control this disease. Using high-throughput screening, 464 small molecules (SMs) with either cidal or static activity at 100 µM against a cucumber strain of were identified.

Differential Colonization Dynamics of Cucurbit Hosts by Erwinia tracheiphila.

Bacterial wilt is one of the most destructive diseases of cucurbits in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. Although the disease has been studied since 1900, host colonization dynamics remain unclear. Cucumis- and Cucurbita-derived strains exhibit host preference for the cucurbit genus from which they were isolated.